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by yannoninator 1658 days ago
> Contribute to open source projects like Linux where they can't do that.

The Linux Foundation 2021 annual report [0] forecasts revenues of over $177M and companies are still involved in the development of Linux and other open source projects under that umbrella.

Either way, Linux devs and other open source devs are being "supported" by these big corporations.

[0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/tools/linux-foundation-annua...